Former President Donald Trump said he may press the Justice Department to investigate his political opponents if elected in 2024.
Former President Donald Trump said he might push the Justice Department to investigate his political opponents if he wins the 2024 race for the White House, suggesting that the several indictments he’s been hit with have released the retaliation “genie out of the box.”
President Trump made the remarks in an interview on Univision in response to a question posed by the reporter, who asked: “You say they’ve weaponized the Justice Department, they weaponized the FBI. Would you do the same if you’re reelected?”
“Well, he’s unleashed something that everybody, we’ve all known about this for a hundred years,” President Trump said, presumably referring to President Joe Biden and his administration.
Not long ago, the notion that a former president—much less the frontrunner by far for the Republican presidential nomination and the incumbent president’s main rival—would face major legal troubles that could land him in jail was almost inconceivable.
Yet that is now the reality confronting the former president, who faces 91 felony counts in four criminal cases in Washington, New York, Florida, and Georgia. If convicted, he could potentially be looking at